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Southern Arkansas University Tech notifies data breach victims
Southern Arkansas University Tech this week confirmed it notified an undisclosed number of people about an October 2024 data breach. The school has not stated what data was compromised or how many people are affected. However, SAU Tech is offering victims free credit monitoring, which usually implies Social Security numbers were among the data. Ransomware gang RansomHub claimed responsibility for…
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Commvault says recent breach didn’t impact customer backup data
Commvault, a leading provider of data protection solutions, says a nation-state threat actor who breached its Azure environment didn’t gain access to customer backup data. Listed on NASDAQ since March 2006, Commvault is included in the S&P MidCap 400 Index and provides cyber resilience services to over 100,000 organizations. As the company first revealed on March 7, 2025, Commvault discovered the…
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Charleston County, SC School District notifies 20,000+ people of data breach
The Charleston County, South Carolina School District yesterday confirmed it notified 20,653 people about a July 2024 data breach. The District on July 16, 2024 said unknown actors disrupted its systems and stole data. At the time, CCSD officials told Comparitech, “we are not aware of any malicious misuse of school data.” The district has not publicly disclosed what personal…
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Complete Payroll Solutions notifies 22K+ people of 2023 data breach that leaked SSNs
Complete Payroll Solutions this week confirmed it notified at least 22,000 people of an October 2023 data breach that compromised Social Security numbers, financial account info, and driver’s licenses. The company first notified 320 people shortly after the breach occurred. Now a year and a half later, the number of victims has ballooned to more than 22,000. New Hampshire’s attorney…
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Marks & Spencer breach linked to Scattered Spider ransomware attack
Ongoing outages at British retail giant Marks & Spencer are caused by a ransomware attack believed to be conducted by a hacking collective known as “Scattered Spider” BleepingComputer has learned from multiple sources. Marks & Spencer (M&S) is a British multinational retailer that employs 64,000 employees and sells various products, including clothing, food, and home goods in over 1,400 stores worldwide.…
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VeriSource now says February data breach impacts 4 million people
Employee benefits administration firm VeriSource Services is warning that a data breach exposed the personal information of four million people. VeriSource is a Texas-based employee benefits administration and HR outsourcing solutions provider with diverse clients across the U.S. The firm has begun data breach notifications to impacted individuals about a cybersecurity incident that occurred in February 2024, but the impact…
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Frederick Health data breach impacts nearly 1 million patients
A ransomware attack in January at Frederick Health Medical Group, a major healthcare provider in Maryland, has led to a data breach affecting nearly one million patients. With almost 4,000 employees and over 25 locations, Frederick Health is one of Frederick County’s largest employers. As the health system revealed in a late March notification to patients, the ransomware attack was…
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Baltimore City Public Schools data breach affects over 31,000 people
Baltimore City Public Schools notified tens of thousands of employees and students of a data breach following an incident in February when unknown attackers hacked into its network. Established in 1829, the public school district provides primary and secondary education to 76,841 enrolled students through 164 schools and programs. “On February 13, 2025, Baltimore City Public Schools experienced a cybersecurity…
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More than 5 million Americans just had their personal information exposed in the Yale New Haven Health data breach – and lawsuits are already rolling in
A data breach at Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS) has exposed data belonging to millions of people – and lawsuits have already been filed. YNHHS runs more than 360 locations across Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island, and is notifying patients that their personal data might have been affected. According to an entry on the US Department of Health and…
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A Data Breach at Yale New Haven Health Compromised 5.5 Million Patients’ Information
Credit: Alexander Farnsworth / iStock Editorial / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Data breaches targeting healthcare and compromising patient information seem to be coming fast and furious, the latest of which occurred at Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS), a massive nonprofit healthcare network in Connecticut. Hackers stole the data of more than 5.5 million individuals during an attack in…
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